Our story
RoboDriveAI was founded to close the gap between robotics research papers and the hospital corridors, warehouse aisles and collaboration floors where service robots actually work.
Based at 1021 West Broadway, Suite 307 in Vancouver, British Columbia, RoboDriveAI operates a multi-studio campus dedicated to service robotics research, AMR pilot staging and healthcare robotics lab replication. Our name reflects our core discipline: driving hardware platforms, navigation software, facility APIs and human workflows into coherent deployment programmes that facility operators can own long after our engagement ends.
We are not a marketing agency, IT outsourcing shop or consulting-first firm. Every team member has a background in robotics engineering, simulation science or clinical technology integration.
That focus allows us to speak credibly with biomedical engineering departments, warehouse operations managers and municipal innovation offices across Canada — always with the humility to say when a robotics deployment is premature for a given facility. Our West Broadway campus sits in Vancouver's Broadway corridor, accessible from the Canada Line and well served by transit for visiting teams who prefer not to drive.
Intelligent motion should extend human reach — not remove human oversight from critical workflows.
Simulation scenarios, navigation parameters and training curricula are version-controlled and transferable.
We integrate with your existing WMS, clinical middleware and safety standards — not replace them.
The campus includes a motion planning workshop, healthcare robotics lab bay, simulation review theatre and Vancouver contact studio where clients co-design pilot protocols. British Columbia's diverse facility landscape — from coastal hospitals to inland distribution centres — gives our team real-world calibration data that informs every RDR programme and integration service we deliver.
RoboDriveAI is registered in British Columbia under business number BN 873205641BC0001. We align our data handling practices with PIPEDA and maintain documented privacy procedures for all client telemetry and floor-plan data received during engagements. Privacy inquiries may be directed to [email protected].
Since establishing our West Broadway presence, RoboDriveAI has hosted more than one hundred twenty service robot pilots spanning healthcare assist corridors, warehouse AMR fleets and human-robot collaboration studios. Each engagement begins with an honest facility readiness review: mapping quality, Wi-Fi coverage, elevator interfaces and staff training capacity.
Former UBC postdoctoral fellow in mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction. Mei Lin directs simulation review standards and healthcare robotics lab protocols at West Broadway. She speaks regularly at Pacific Northwest robotics symposia on service robot safety culture and collaborative AMR deployment.